Hello list, I'm teaching a new class this fall on democracy and "life online" and am seeking recommendations for English-language readings that are manageable for first year undergraduates. I'm co-teaching this with a philosopher, who will assign a lot of democracy theory ... my job is to connect this to digital tools. Topics range from direct democracy, to (digital) literacy/education, to open source and participation, to populism, to algorithmic governance, and many others. I see a lot of recent experiments and scholarship on these topics; the difficulty is finding something that explains the terrain to 18 year olds! This is a course description: https://my.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/cm1091fb9/fall-2019?fbclid=IwAR0... I'd love thoughts from this list! Thanks much, Jessica Jessica Feldman Assistant Professor Department of Global Communications American University of Paris https://www.aup.edu/profile/jfeldman jfeldman@aup.edu feldman@protonmail.com feldman.jm@gmail.com pgp fingerprint: 67F4 11DF EF37 968E 74D4 6450 74E8 EB3C 7731 FF80 She/Hers/Her